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Early Spring Photos

Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary
Spring Walk
  
There are few lovelier sights than finding in sheltered nooks where the sun has rested, patches of hepaticas, snow trillium and bloodroot, the real harbingers of spring. Martha Crone
  
 
Spring Prairie
  
More photos of each plant and additional plant information can be found by looking up individual plants in the "Archive/Site Plan". Alternate common names for plants are listed in ( ).
  
   
Snow trillium
 Snow Trillium (Trillium nivale Riddell) growing with the Common Periwinkle (Running Myrtle) (Vinca minor L.) in the Woodland Garden.
Dutchman's Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria (L.) Bernh.) growing midway between the Woodland and Upland Gardens.
Dutchman's Breeches
  
         
Prairie Smoke
Sharp-=lobed Hepatica
  
Prairie Smoke (Old Man's Whisker's) (Geum triflorum Pursh.) in the Upland Garden. Click on image for more photos.
Sharp-lobed Hepatica (Hepatica nobilis Schreb. var. acuta (Pursh) Steyerm.) in the Woodland Garden. Click on image for more photos.
  
         
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Leatherwood
  
Yellow Trout Lily (Dogtooth Violet) (Erythronium americanum Ker Gawl.) in the Woodland Garden. Click on image for more photos.
Eastern Leatherwood (Dirca palustris L.). A shrub growing on the patio area in front of the Martha Crone Shelter in the Woodland Garden.
  
         
White Trout-lily
 White Trout Lily (White Fawn Lily) (Erythronium albidum Nutt.) in the Woodland Garden. Click on image for more photos.
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis L.) in the Woodland Garden in many places. Click on image for more photos.
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Bloodroot
  
         
False rue-anemone
 False Rue Anemone (Eastern False Rue Anemone) (Enemion biternatum Raf. Old-Isopyrum biternatum). Buttercup family. Found in the Woodland Garden, with many clumps on the west most trail. (Clump image under.)
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris L.). One of the first to bloom in the Woodland Garden by the end of April.
Marsh Marigold
  
         
Larch buds
Skunk Cabbage
  
Leaf buds on the Tamarack (Larch) (Larix laricina (Du Roi) K. Koch) in the Woodland Garden.
info buttonSkunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus (L.) Salisb. ex Nutt.) with leaves emerging in the Woodland Garden. Click on image for more photos.
  
         
Cut-leaf toothwort
 Cut-leaved Toothwort (Cardamine concatenata (Michx.) Woodland Garden
Large-flowered Bellwort (Uvularia grandiflora Sm.) Woodland Garden
Large Flowered Bellwort
  
         
Two-leaf Toothwort
Wild Ginger
  
Two-leaved Toothwort (Crinkleroot). (Cardamine diphylla (Michx) Alph. Wood) Woodland Garden.
Wild Ginger (Canadian Wild Ginger) (Asarum canadense L.) Woodland Garden
  
         
Common Blue Violets
Pussy Willow
  
Common Blue Violet (Viola sororia Willd.) Woodland Garden
Pussy Willow (Salix discolor Muhl.) Woodland Garden Bog area
  
         
Twinleaf
 Twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla (L.) Pers.). Woodland Garden.
Wild Oats (Sessileleaf Bellwort) (Uvularia sessilifolia L.). Woodland Garden.
Wild Oats
  
         
 
For a bibliography of reference books click on this link: Reference List  
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